On the same night Tottenham Hotspur last visited Real Madrid's Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, 17-year-old Harry Kane appeared as a late substitute for Leyton Orient in League One.
Six-and-a-half years later, the very same player is not only feared by the Spanish champions ahead of Tuesday night's Champions League clash – they'd also like to sign him.
Even by football's fickle standards, the ascent of Kane is astonishing. While Gareth Bale and Luka Modric were all the rage at White Hart Lane in April 2011, he was sent to Brisbane Road for the first of four different loan spells; not all of them successful.